Whether you call it Program Manager, Product Manager or Technical Product Manager, Chris’s deep experience will serve each of these roles.

 

Big and Small and Global - He understands organizations ranging from start-up through to enterprise.  Chris is comfortable in speaking to developers, IT managers, through to C-Level  personas.  Experienced in North and South America, Europe and Asia.  

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​Big Thinker - Imagine building a tool to migrate customers in under 5 mouse clicks.  Ask him about the Microsoft Access Migration Kit.

 

Analytical – Competitive analysis is second nature to Chris.  Cost-benefit analysis come naturally with his math background.

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Customer-Centric – Chris goes out of his way with a hands-on approach to get the customer’s perspective, understand customers’ use cases and pains.  Combined with his analytical approach he is able to truly understand priorities with investment in software development.  Chris thoroughly enjoys evangelism to meet new customers.

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Trusted – Chris is often brought in as the "subject matter expert" to demonstrate the "art of the possible" while balancing setting expectations with clients.

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Innovative

• Chris was a part of a team who put data management technology in remote locations: gas pumps, POS terminals, scales, and PDAs before they were considered “Smart” (ie Smartphone),

• Web 2.0 Kit for DB2 to make it seamless for Web developers to use DB2.

• Ask him about the demos in the Mobile Demo Center

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Curiosity

Chris is constantly challenging himself to learn new technology and approaches to problems to keep up with the constant change.  Currently he is studying R, Octave and Machine Learning.

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Business and Tech Savvy - Chris is able to communicate technically with the lingo used by engineers and still be able to communicate with the business translating the business value to the market.